The Google, Amazon and Facebook busines model is to gather information about you and sell it. Is that why they are opposing proposed laws to all police access to paedophile and terrorist communications?

We look to the US to see where technology will go next: perhaps we should look to China to see where mining of our personal data will go next. The Chinese government is using the techniques of Google and Facebook to tighten its grip on its citizen's lives.

In Australia, there are 1.5m smart home devices like Amazon's Alexa and Google Home, covering 12% of households, but the smarter the home the more inviting it is to hackers. Hacked devices can reveal what you've been saying and what your passwords are.

I wish I’d known sooner’ is the heartbreaking line I hear all the time from parents who find out their child has been the victim of online abuse. As parents we can know sooner. We must know sooner. Story from TenDaily Thursday 7th June 2018

Everyone knows cyber crime is increasing. They may not know that a truism of crime applies just as much on line: crooks look for easy targets. They'll walk past the home with an alarm to target the next home without one. Unfortunately, Australians are becoming the easy target in our global village.

If you've been ripped off on line for perhaps $30,000, you're probably in for some bad news: it may be that the police aren't even going to try to catch your perpetrator. Cases involving less than $50,000 just aren't being pursued, due to lack of resources.